Sentence examples for boomers from inspiring English sources
The word "boomers" is usable in written English and is well written in informal contexts
It is typically used to refer to the Baby Boomer generation, which includes people born approximately between 1946 and 1964. Example: "Many boomers are now retiring and enjoying their newfound free time."
In the main, however, Australian baby boomers are not the savings-rich, generously superannuated cohort of popular mythology.
Young people need to be the model green lifestyle for their generation, much like the baby boomers defined their generation by rights.
"For baby boomers and those even older, it's what matters most" in ensuring that their life is well-lived, says Brian Wineke, a market executive with US Trust in Seattle.
With Steely Dan, Coachella reached peak Dad, and while there was more salt and pepper hair than I'd seen at the festival all day, the baby boomers were no match for the thousands of millennials that surrounded them.
In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which tracks jobs, suggests that fewer Americans will be working over the next seven years as baby boomers continue to age.
In the early 1980s, when baby-boomers and women were pouring into the job market, this trend participation rate rose by nearly two percentage points (see left-hand chart).
The truth is, baby-boomers are getting older.
And the structural problem will get worse; the baby-boomers will continue to retire, even as the supply of new workers shrivels.
McKinsey sees a fast-growing shortage of people with the skills manufacturers require, particularly as ageing baby-boomers retire.
The green inclinations of baby-boomers, their growing spending power and their yen to turn holidays into something between a forced march and a spiritual retreat, have been the making of an industry that barely existed 30 years ago.
